{"id":112982,"date":"2017-08-20T22:29:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T02:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=112982"},"modified":"2025-03-07T15:56:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T20:56:51","slug":"zoo-gorilla-dies-of-cancer-days-after-constipation-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/20\/zoo-gorilla-dies-of-cancer-days-after-constipation-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoo gorilla dies of cancer, days after constipation surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_112983\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112983\" style=\"width: 462px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Topeka_Zoo_Logo_2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112983\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Topeka_Zoo_Logo_2016.jpg\" alt=\"Topeka Zoo Logo after change in 2016 (Photo By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use)\" width=\"462\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Topeka_Zoo_Logo_2016.jpg 462w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Topeka_Zoo_Logo_2016-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Topeka Zoo Logo after change in 2016 (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=49942632\">Photo By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8212; A 49-year-old lowland gorilla at the Topeka Zoo in Kansas died Sunday after tests revealed she had late-stage ovarian cancer that had spread, four days after undergoing surgery for constipation.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy mounjaro online <a href=\"https:\/\/rxbio.com\/images\/png\/mounjaro.html\">https:\/\/rxbio.com\/images\/png\/mounjaro.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The zoo said in a statement that after Tiffany failed to improve since her surgery Wednesday to clear \u201ca significant amount of stool\u201d from her colon, the gorilla was taken Sunday for scans that revealed two abdominal masses later identified as tumors linked to stage-four ovarian cancer.<\/p>\n<p>During a surgery later Sunday, the zoo said, \u201cit became evident that the cancer had metastasized to the abdominal wall.\u201d Surgeons and veterinarians paused that procedure, then decided the best recourse was to not awaken her after surgery. The gorilla died a short time later, \u201csurrounded by the team of people that cared for her,\u201d the zoo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if all the cancer affected tissue could have been removed, we just could not see an appropriate way to administer a regimen of chemotherapy to treat the cancer,\u201d said Brendan Wiley, the zoo&#8217;s director.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy symbicort inhaler online <a href=\"https:\/\/rxbio.com\/images\/png\/symbicort-inhaler.html\">https:\/\/rxbio.com\/images\/png\/symbicort-inhaler.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Tiffany was born in July 1968 at the Kansas City Zoo and has spent much of her time since then at the Topeka Zoo, aside from four years she lived at the Buffalo Zoo in New York in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy clenbuterol online <a href=\"https:\/\/rxbio.com\/images\/png\/clenbuterol.html\">https:\/\/rxbio.com\/images\/png\/clenbuterol.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was a big part of the persona of our zoo,\u201d Wiley said of Tiffany, eulogizing her as a lover of board books, stuffed animals and her enjoyment \u201cwatching kids, and kids loved to watch her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seemed like everyone knew who Tiffany was,\u201d Wiley said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8212; A 49-year-old lowland gorilla at the Topeka Zoo in Kansas died Sunday after tests revealed she &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":112983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5927,16,17],"tags":[7366],"class_list":["post-112982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment-nature","category-news","category-news-w","tag-gorilla","mauthors-jim-suhr","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287630,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112982\/revisions\/287630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}